DICKENS CHARLES The Mystery of Edwin Drood

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DICKENS, CHARLES. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. 6 monthly parts (all published). Engraved portrait of Dickens by J.H. Baker, vignette title-page and 12 engraved plates by Samuel Luke Fildes. 8vo, original blue-green pictorial wrappers, backstrips rubbed with occasional loss (heaviest to first and last parts), edge creasing and small chip to wrapper on Part 1; buckram chemise and slipcase. London: Chapman & Hall, April-September, 1870

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first edition in original monthly parts. The earliest issue of part 6 with the "eighteenpence" slip pasted over the one shilling price on the front wrapper. The "Edwin Drood Advertiser" present in each part, as well as the inserted advertisements, including the "Cork Hats" slip in part 2. Dickens' last novel, left unfinished upon his death. Eckel, pp.96-98; Hatton & Cleaver, pp.373-84.